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I do a lot of robotics for my PhD work and all my electronics and motor controls have been trialed in the robots.” That’s according to Joe Brown, from Bristol Bot Builders, who has been making and fighting robots for nearly 10 years. The Flaming Lips have once again declared war on those evil machines as the band has announced a massive 20th-anniversary reissue for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. His team’s fighting machine, ‘Nuts’, started life as a 150g robot made from a pringles tube. They scaled Nuts up until it became 102kg of rapid rotating metal that gouged holes in solid steel robots. Charts.nz – The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 7, 2021.

Offiziellecharts.de – The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 7, 2021. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots enters the ring with this coming-of-age song, Wayne Coyne reconsidering a long-held belief that pacifism ensures the upper hand in conflict. “I thought I was smart, I thought I was right/I thought it was better not to fight/I thought there was a virtue in always being cool,” he sings, before realising that, sometimes, you just have to roll up your sleeves and defend yourself. Refusal to do so has cost the protagonist of Fight Test his girlfriend, but there’s a wider message here – not only about standing up for what you believe in, but also about taking responsibility for your own destiny (“And I don’t know how a man decides what’s right for his own life/It’s all a mystery”). More cosmic connections abound: Fight Test’s melody shares DNA with Cat Stevens’ Father And Son, another song sung from an older, wiser perspective, with teachings about the importance of remaining true to oneself. One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 Released on 16 July 2002, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was hailed by Rolling Stone as “the most beauteous of Lips albums” and by Uncut as “astonishing… even by their standards”. With Pitchfork anointing Wayne Coyne as “a genius, equal parts Thomas Edison and PT Barnum” and praising the album for being “bold and inventive… brimming with ideas and sublime moments of brilliance”, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots became The Flaming Lips’ first Top 50 hit on the Billboard 200 while also scoring the group their greatest UK success to date when it peaked at No.13. Uncut would later place it at No.11 in their run-down of the best 2000s albums and call it the greatest record released since the magazine launched, in May 1997. Tyrangiel, Josh (July 19, 2002). " Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots". Entertainment Weekly. p.74. Archived from the original on January 6, 2016 . Retrieved December 5, 2015.Ng, David (March 14, 2012). " Flaming Lips musical to debut in late 2012, minus Aaron Sorkin". LA Times. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012 . Retrieved September 11, 2012. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Certified Gold". Market Wire. 2006. Archived from the original on December 11, 2008 . Retrieved May 5, 2011. Bryant, Will (July 15, 2002). "The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on April 20, 2011 . Retrieved May 5, 2011.

Kot, Greg (July 25, 2002). " Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on December 6, 2015 . Retrieved December 5, 2015. Across lengthy sessions in producer Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studios, in Cassadaga, an hour south of Buffalo, New York, The Flaming Lips availed themselves of advances in technology while they sought to harness their obsessions with sci-fi and Big Question themes – love, life, death and the human condition in a rapidly changing world – to a crossover sound that wouldn’t compromise their ambition. Christgau, Robert. "CG: The Flaming Lips". RobertChristgau.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved December 5, 2015. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the tenth studio album by The Flaming Lips. It is their most commercially successful album and the only one to date to be certified gold by the RIAA.Dimery, Robert, ed. (2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.

He said: "A lot of people in the sport aren’t actually engineers. It’s super low barrier to entry and you get plenty of garage builds. You get people with a saw and some spare metal going toe to toe with someone’s PhD project - and often the less complicated one comes out on top.Harding, Cortney (September 26, 2009). "Flaming Lips dial down the whimsy on "Embryonic" ". Reuters. Archived from the original on September 16, 2017 . Retrieved September 16, 2017.

Many begin by making tiny 150g robots that battle in Perspex boxes the size of dishwashers, before graduating to heavier and more deadly machines. The album manages an often elegant marriage of futuristic technology and ancient songwriting tradition. Channeling bands like Pink Floyd on songs such as ‘Fight Test’ and ‘Yoshimi Part 1’, synthesisers rub pleasingly against the rustic charm of acoustic guitar and funky drums, creating an unlikely harmony that conjures images of a world in which man and machine live side-by-side.Norwegiancharts.com – The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 7, 2021. The Flaming Lips will celebrate two decades since their 10th studio album ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ with a deluxe reissue, as well as anniversary shows in London and Washington, DC. Wayne Coyne once claimed that every Flaming Lips song is a Christmas song, and while the group have been responsible for some of the best alternative Christmas songs of all time, the form’s maximalist tradition is also stamped through the Lips’ signature tune, Do You Realize?? Soaring strings, swooping synths, chiming bells and judiciously deployed key changes keep things festive, even as Coyne delivers a frank yet thoughtful home truth: “Do you realise/That everyone you know someday will die?” Yet rather than prompt despair, the song encourages listeners to be at peace with their smallness in the universe, and to share with loved ones the moments they can. “We play it every night, and I know in the audience there are people that this is their song… this is their mother in this song, this is their sons and daughters,” Coyne told Yahoo. “It’s like a piece of magic.” All We Have Is Now Perpetua, Matthew (April 5, 2011). " The Flaming Lips Plan 'Yoshimi' Musical". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012 . Retrieved September 11, 2012. They go absolutely crazy for Do You Realize?? and start to point out that this is a special thing,” Coyne said. When the single was released, in August 2002, a month after the album, the public also took the song’s message to heart.